Craft:

Data, Analytics & Strategy

Job Description:

As Analytics Director working within a key Product Area in Candy Crush Soda Saga, you will lead a high-performing team delivering critical insights that shape Soda’s economy, monetisation, and content strategies. Your leadership will empower the product area to make data-informed decisions that enhance engagement, increase revenue, and tailor the game to all players at all times.

This role combines hands-on strategic thinking with people leadership. You’ll partner with cross-functional leaders, elevate analytics practices, and ensure that your team’s work drives real player and business impact.

Your role within the Kingdom

• Lead a team of ~10 data scientists, enabling excellence across experimentation, player insights, economy modelling, and performance analysis.

• Partner with product leads to define priorities, shape product strategy, and measure progress against strategic objectives.

• Champion lifecycle- and monetisation-focused analytics, ensuring the team delivers actionable insights that enhance both player experience and revenue generation.

• Drive the design and evaluation of experiments across multiple product themes, improving our understanding of player behaviour and response.

• Act as the analytics voice within leadership and represent the product area in Soda and King-wide data forums.

• Contribute to scalable analytics frameworks, reusable tooling, and data methodologies that enable speed and quality across teams.

• Coach and develop your team, building a strong, empowered, and engaged analytics craft

• Collaborate closely with Finance, Game Design, and Central Analytics to connect business outcomes to player behaviour and economic drivers.

Skills to Create Thrills

• Proven ability to lead and grow a high-performing analytics team in a fast-paced product environment.

• Strong experience applying analytics to monetisation, economy systems, and player lifecycle management.

• Excellent stakeholder management and strategic thinking — able to connect insights to product and business outcomes.

• Deep understanding of experimentation, product analytics, and data storytelling.

• Advanced skills in SQL and familiarity with statistical packages (e.g. R, Python) and data visualisation tools.

• 5+ years of professional experience in analytics, with relevant experience leading analytical roles such as Data Scientists and Product Analysts.

• Background in gaming or consumer tech preferred.

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field required; advanced degree a plus.

About King

With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile game hits such as Farm Heroes Saga. King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users. King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has Kingsters in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at King.com or by following us on LinkedIn, @lifeatking on Instagram, or @king_games on X.